The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-05-07

| Mrs. hidgie, teacher of household econ
omy III Kansas Agricultural College, says:
\ large proportion of the women in country
| homes, where Homework is hardest, work
! at great disadvantage. The disadvant-
| age comes TO the worker in the kitchen
| first, through not having house built TO
work in, and, second, through not having
the many small conyeniences to work with
that are to be found in our ordinary fur
nishing stores of to-day. In building a
/ house, the usual way on the farm is to
block out plan, then put it into the hands
of the carpenter, and they really do the
arranging Of much of the inside of the
house. Now, since woman is to have the
most OF the living III these rooms, why
| doesn't she do the planning? 1t seems
| reasonable that she should at least decide
upon her kitchen, with its pantry, its cup
| boards, closets, drawers and sink-puIting
| things in just as she individually wants
| them. She may tuck in few large closets,
| also, where men might, as a rule, think
| there were none needed. Twenty years
ago q Kansas carpenter was utterly aston
/ ished when a woman, who was having a
| house built, insisted on two closets for the
second floor, where there were three rooms.
| Two closets were almost unheard of then in
Kansas farm house.
If the good work needed in the building
| of the house be neglected, q little money
| spent in the way of buying convepiences
! for doing work Will often save itself over
and over again in wages for help, and,
mayhap, in doctors bills as well. The
Washing machines and wringers take away
half the horrors of Monday, and nickel
/ plated irons, with wooden handles, help
| Tuesday to dispose of the ironing with
amazing rapidity. The carpet-sweeper is a
/ true missionary to tired muscles, for il
| often saves them from destruction. Even
| the egg beaten, n good coffee mill, sharp
/ knives, light kettles tthe new granite ware
is so much easier TO lit than the old iron
pots, plenty of pans and basins, all go to
! make up comfortable days for woman By
giving her a chance to do her work rapidly
and we'll
| Many cooks keep their -four in very in
! convenient receptacles. flour chest,
/ which the young ladies of the kitchen
| laboratory have found very convenient, is
| easily made at home by almost any man if
| he can handle tools even only indifferently.
| 1t consists of -four box on one side, with
q divided box on the other for graham and
/ corn-meal. A molding board slides over
| both, and small boxes on each side contain
! spices, tiavoring extracts, soda, baking
powder, and, indeed, all the small ne
| cessaries for cooking. Nails on the side
hold the stirring spoons; and in truth, all
the articles wanted when one must do cook
ing are found right here. We often take
I our large cake bowl TO this -four chest, and,
/ scarcely stepping away, have a cake or
1 biscuits ready for the oven.
I OF course, every woman in having made
| anything of that kind would have her in
dividual ideas worked out. No stranger
would want one exactly like ours. no two
! women would have them precisely the
/ same. Many prefer the fitting hour boxes,
/ where the chestful springs out or III Mt the
! touch of a finger. There are two of these
/ in our kitchen laboratory, but the girls
| seem to prefer the larger one, where every
thing is within reach. Now, these are
simply examples. Every woman who
keeps house, doing her own work, can, if
she choose, have many inexpensive helps
that viii do much toward preserving her
health and strength. l hold it every wo-
mans duty TO so measure her work that she
can DO each days share without overtaxing
her strength, that she has no right to draw
upon; and when she does overuse the
amount given her for her one days work,
she draws upon the future, making herself
liable to the heaviest kind of usury when
she is called to pay her debts.-The Indus
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